New Year’s Eve: When is it 2017 around the world?

New Year’s Eve is upon us. One final chance to let your hair down, celebrate surviving another rotation around the Sun and repeat your annual vow to one-day learn the lyrics to Auld Lang Syne. From New York to London and Sydney to Dubai, cities across the world will be letting off fireworks to welcome 2017 on December 31. But with 24 different time zones, who celebrates when?

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